WaPo/ABC News Poll: RINO Romney leading Tovarich Obama

[Fury]

Romney Rising. Why? It’s The Economy, Stupid (The Note)
June 07, 2011 8:45 AM

By MICHAEL FALCONE (@michaelpfalcone) and AMY WALTER (@amyewalter)

Less than a week after officially kicking off his presidential campaign, Mitt Romney is starting to earn his front-runner label.

A new ABC News-Washington Post poll out this morning not only puts the former Massachusetts governor on top of the field of Republican presidential contenders, it also shows him pulling ahead of Obama among registered voters in a general election matchup. http://abcn.ws/lwjRwo

Romney is leading Obama, 49 percent to 46 percent in the trial heat among registered voters. (Among a larger pool -- all Americans -- Romney and the president are running even). Still, no other Republican even gets Obama under 50 percent. Moreover, Romney and Obama run evenly among women -- a group Obama won by 13 points in 2008.

While that’s great boost for Romney, today’s poll also reveals more evidence that a Sarah Palin candidacy would be a disaster for the GOP. Although she is in second place (17 percent) behind Romney (21 percent) in the GOP field, 64 percent of Americans say they would “definitely not” vote for her, including 41 percent of Republicans.

Though Romney and Palin are still ahead of the rest of the Republican pack, as ABC News pollster Gary Langer points out, “the flipside is that each is not supported by eight in 10 potential GOP voters, indicating plenty of room to move as the field coalesces and voters tune in. Today just 22 percent of Americans (and 24 percent of leaned Republicans) are following the 2012 presidential election very closely.” http://abcn.ws/lwjRwo

And, of course, the new numbers from the ABC News-Washington Post survey carry lots of bad news for the president, especially on voters’ views of his handling of the economy and their overall pessimism about the state of the American economy. On the same day that a high-profile member of Obama’s economic team, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers Austan Goolsbee, announced he is leaving his post, the poll finds that 59 percent of Americans disapprove of Obama's handling of the economy.

Who would do a better job handling it? Respondents picked “Republicans in Congress” over the president by 3 percentage points. Sixty-six percent of Americans believe the country is on the wrong track.

Heading into the 2012 cycle, Obama is facing a 68 percent “Frustration Index” (based on ratings of the economy, presidential approval, anti-incumbency and dissatisfaction with the federal government). That’s lower than it was when Obama won in 2008 but at about the same place it was in 1992 when George H.W. Bush lost re-election.

These are scary numbers for the President and they confirm a central tenant of GOP case against Obama: it's the economy stupid.

More from Jake Tapper’s “Good Morning America” report on Obama’s flagging poll numbers (with an assist from the ABC Smart Screen): http://abcn.ws/kCLSha

http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2011/06/romney-rising-why-its-the-economy-stupid-the-note.html



In other news, 240, Blacken and a host of other liberals are currently on suicide watch.

[blacken700]

  there is still a year and a half a life time in politics

[Fury]

there is still a year and a half a life time in politics

Hahahaha, that's all you can respond with, eh? Ouch, how the stupid have fallen.  

This should be a nice dose of reality for the far-left minority that thinks the country actually agrees with their idiotic ideology.   

[blacken700]

the only problem is the  right is too stupid to run romney, they will pick some far right nut 

[Straw Man]

Hahahaha, that's all you can respond with, eh? Ouch, how the stupid have fallen.  

This should be a nice dose of reality for the far-left minority that thinks the country actually agrees with their idiotic ideology.   

yeah - I guess Obama should just concede to Romney right now and start packing

polls this far out are about as meaningful as a weather report for a year and a half from now

[headhuntersix]

A shit puppet will be able to beat Barry O if the economy is like this during the election.

[Fury]

Hahaha, look at the rats crawling out of the woodwork with the "It doesn't matter this far out". A quick scan through their post histories will show each and every one of them referencing polls at some point in the last six months.

Welcome to the reality that is Obama's dying presidency. This guy better be praying to whatever moon god he worships before bed every night that the economy actually recovers in the next 18 months.

[Dos Equis]

A shit puppet will be able to beat Barry O if the economy is like this during the election.

Hey you need to go bump your quote about Weiner.  I bumped it once already.   

[Straw Man]

Hahaha, look at the rats crawling out of the woodwork with the "It doesn't matter this far out". A quick scan through their post histories will show each and every one of them referencing polls at some point in the last six months.

Welcome to the reality that is Obama's dying presidency. This guy better be praying to whatever moon god he worships before bed every night that the economy actually recovers in the next 18 months.

do you recall you the Dem and Repub front runners were at this time in the last election

was it Obama or McCain?

[Fury]

do you recall you the Dem and Repub front runners were at this time in the last election

was it Obama or McCain?

Funny that this is the first time you're complaining about polls. Never seen you pop in when your douchy liberal buddies are throwing around approval numbers and the like as if they're the gospel.

"Mission control, mission control, we were caught with our pants down and are in dire need of damage control."



It's pretty amusing watching the Dems destroy any remaining credibility their far-left agenda has. Like the GOP did just a few years ago, Piglosi, Reid and Obama have set the Dem brand back years. Ha ha ha.

[Straw Man]

Funny that this is the first time you're complaining about polls. Never seen you pop in when your douchy liberal buddies are throwing around approval numbers and the like as if they're the gospel.

"Mission control, mission control, we were caught with our pants down and are in dire need of damage control."



It's pretty amusing watching the Dems destroy any remaining credibility their far-left agenda has. Like the GOP did just a few years ago, Piglosi, Reid and Obama have set the Dem brand back years. Ha ha ha.

translation - you don't know or are unwilling to answer as it reveal the stupidity of your prior comment in this thread

[Fury]

translation - you don't know or are unwilling to answer as it reveal the stupidity of your prior comment in this thread

It's more like I didn't care enough to bother responding. You could type up whatever floats your little liberal boat; it all reads as damage control me and anyone with half a brain.

The SS Obama reminds me of the Titanic. Try as this regime might (aka not at all) to avoid that ice berg they're intent on running into it at full speed.

[Straw Man]

It's more like I didn't care enough to bother responding. You could type up whatever floats your little liberal boat; it all reads as damage control me and anyone with half a brain.

The SS Obama reminds me of the Titanic. Try as this regime might (aka not at all) to avoid that ice berg they're intent on running into it at full speed.

so who were the Dem/Repub front runners a year and a half out from the 2008 election?

[blacken700]

in June of 1995, a Newsweek survey found Dole leading Clinton, 49%-40%, i can't remember how did that turn out 

[Fury]

in June of 1995, a Newsweek survey found Dole leading Clinton, 49%-40%, i can't remember how did that turn out 

So I take it you won't be referencing a single poll or approval rating until four or five months out of the election, right, hypocrite? 


"Mission control, we got caught with our pants down again and are in dire need of damage control!"

[Soul Crusher]

in June of 1995, a Newsweek survey found Dole leading Clinton, 49%-40%, i can't remember how did that turn out 

Difference now is that Obama has a record and the economy is unlikely to get better.   Clinton had a good economy going as well as Perot helping out.   

Bam a has his misery index which is only getting worse. 

[Fury]

Bump for the left's dose of reality!

[Soul Crusher]

Things stay like this and Obama is a goner wo a doubt.